The Penguins won’t retain on Tristan Jarry, which mainly takes the Oilers out of it
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Are Canucks Trading Quinn Hughes? episode on the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins talking a couple of Tristan Jarry trade. The Penguins won’t retain any salary on Jarry, who has two years left, which makes the true hard for the Oilers to do.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “One other name that had been on the market you were looking around online the previous couple of days, Tristan Jarry. Being linked to the Edmonton Oilers. I mean, there was that shot of the hug between Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard that appeared to linger a bit of bit after that win against Seattle on Thursday. And everybody’s attempting to decode, okay, ‘What, what does that mean? What does that mean?’
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That was one other a part of Headlines on Saturday for you, Elliotte. Jarry and the Oilers, what’s occurring, if anything?”
Friedman: “So there was a, there was a post on Friday night that indicated a deal was done with 50% retention. And you understand, the one thing that is totally true is that Edmonton showed a variety of interest in Jarry. Like, that’s real. I can’t remember who was the primary to report it, nevertheless it’s true.
And what I sort of needed to work through was what was fact and what was fiction. And I’ll let you know that what was fact is that the Oilers liked the thought. And what can be fact, and it really explained a variety of this Pickard stuff to me, Kyle, that you just and I actually have talked about, and that he admitted to you, that he sort of knew. I feel he knew that in the event that they had gotten Jarry, he was out.
That, because I’ve since discovered it wasn’t going to be Jarry for Skinner, it was going to be Jarry and Skinner. Which, you understand, one in every of the things we’ve talked about lots is that the Oilers weren’t going to make a change in goal unless they really imagine they might have improvement. And I feel you’d make an argument that a Skinner-Jarry combination, assuming each could stay healthy, it was an improvement. They usually were hoping that that’s what they might do, and the 2 of them would push one another and force one another to turn out to be higher. That was their goal.
Now, what happened that has ended things for now, is that I’m told Pittsburgh is totally unwilling to retain. Jarry has two more years at just below $5.4 million, they usually, the Penguins have made it very clear that in the event that they were going to do that, there was going to be no retention.
And in the event you’re an Oiler fan, you understand that that’s going to be very hard for them to do. The Oilers are capped tight, and at once they’ve got a variety of injuries, and guys just out and in, they usually’re barely carrying extra players. Like their roster is stuck. In order that they really couldn’t do a variety of stuff even in the event that they desired to without dollar in, dollar out. Type of like we discussed with Latest Jersey.
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In order that, I’m told that that has made that trade almost inconceivable to do unless the Oilers do surgery of their very own. And I’m not convinced they need to do this. So mainly, where we’re is, yes, they do like Jarry. Yes, they’d like to have a Jarry-Skinner combination, or wish to have it. But no, they’ll’t do it of their present situation unless bodies exit.
So mainly, what I used to be told was, could it occur? Possibly. Would they prefer it to occur? Yeah, I feel they’d have an interest. Can it occur? Very, very hard and should not occur.”
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